Headlight glare shield



April 23, 1929. v w. M. HENRY 1,710,678

HEADLIGHT GLARE SHIELD Filed July 30, 1927 Patented Apr. 23, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER M. HENRY, OF HAZLETON. PENNSYLVANIA; CATHERINE E, HENRY EXECU- TRIX OF SAID WALTER M. HENRY, DECEASED.

HEADLIGHT GLARE SHIELD.

Application filed July 30,

The invention relates to improvements in light-ray dill'nsing means for motor vehicle head-lights and has particular reference to a device arranged for combination, with standard motor lights adopted to deflect and break-up the direct light rays to eliminate the glaring light shafts caused by the reflectionnieans of said lights and yet provide a light projector having the same efficient features found in the general type and form oi vehicle headlights.

The object oi. the invention resides in the providing of an ai'ixiliai v socket-frame having mounted thereon. a deflector plate providedv with a series of apertures formed therein by cutting rectangular slots in said plate and pressing same into shutters adjacent said apertures and disposed in the path of the direct light rays cast by the light reflector to diffuse such direct light rays to eliminate the glare thereof and to provide a soft penetrating light without decreasing the visibility of same.

In the following there is described the general embodiment of the invention the essential features thereof being more clearly defined hereinafter in the claim.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view of a motor vehicle lamp illustrating the relative position therein of the light ray ditfusing means; Fig. 2 is a detail Sectional view of the lamp, socket, electric light bulb and of the position of the diffusing plate with relation thereto; Fig. 3 is an elevation of the diltusing plate showing the position therein of the light disseminating apertures and the deflector shutters for breaking up the light-rays; and Fig. at is an elevation of the diffusing member showing same to comprise a supporting socket and a frame attached thereto carrying the diffusing or disseminating plate.

Similar numerals of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

In the drawings 1 designates the frame casing of the usual form of motor-vehicle headlight, provided with an electric light socket 2, the lens frame 3, lens 4, and re flcctor 5, said socket having mounted therein the general type of bulb 6.

1927 Serial No. 209,604.

Socket 2 is ol. the general type and has mounted thereon a collar 7, carrying a supporting disk 8, having mounted thereon lu'ackct arms 9, adjacent said electric light bulb (i. said arms 9. having disposed thereon a. ditli'using plate 1.0. juxtaposed immediately in front of said electric light bulb (i, and in a direct. line with the light rays cast by said reflector 5. said plate 10, having cut therein a series of apertures 11, and by pressing the body of said plate 1.0, outwardly along the rectangular openings into and through said plate provide a series of shutters 12, the combination of the apertures 11, and shutters 12, forming the dittusing means since such formation allows the direct light-ravs-to penetrate through said apertures and by reason of shutters 12, partly deflecting such direct rays, reduce such direct rays to disseminate the glaring rays into an evenly distributed lighting effect, thusly eliminating all direct glaring rays and producing a head-light structure having highly eiiicient visibility.

The invention as described may be altered in form and structure in numerous ways without departing from the general disclosures herein.

lVhat I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States is 1- A device of the character described, com prising a head light projector incluttling an electric light bulb socket and reflector for reflecting the light rays thereof, a ray diflusing shield consisting of a supporting disk mounted on and detaehably atiixed to the bulb socket of said head light having integrally attached thereto rigid side arms, a ditl'nsing plate mounted on said arms provided with horizontally disposed parallel apertures cut in the wall of said plate, the cutting of said apertures therein forming part of the 'all of said plate into diagonally disposed shutters, and s0 placed in the path of light as to receive part of the direct rays and to disseminate the glaring rays cast by said projector.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification this twenty-eighth day of July, 1927.

W'ALTER M. HENRY. 

